THE CONGRESS: Sheppard Report

Ready for Senators' anxious inspection when they returned to their
desks this week was a 65-page report, plus 379 pages of documentary
evidence, from Chairman Sheppard's Senatorial Campaign Investigating
Committee. After long weeks of probing and the expenditure of $54,000
(out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little
more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political
activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The
Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to
call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends in...